Cav's Place

This will be quick, but there are things to say, starting with the fact that the expected crash actually came two days late last week. It wasn’t that bad on Friday, but Sunday I woke up after a dreadful dream, stared at the ceiling for about one hour before somehow managing to crawl out of bed and was largely out of it all day. Somehow managed to post something on here then, and it wasn’t even personal, but I’m not particularly sure how I did that.

Moving on to this week, Wednesday was quite a mess, starting with the terrible organization of the planned protest against fracking. Our Green Party announced it, calling for NGOs to join them, but none of those appeared to pay any attention to it until the day of the event and what was worse was that they even listed the wrong address, picking one for a secondary location that’s in an unpleasant and difficult to reach area, possibly where some equipment to analyze air and water quality is located. When I actually read their press release, Monday evening, looked at a map to see where they wanted people to gather and then checked where our Environmental Protection Agency is actually located, I did send a message to Cezar Maroti to point out the issue, seeing as I’m otherwise banned and couldn’t post directly or tell Remus Cernea, but despite thanking me for noticing it even Cezar posted the wrong address on his page the following day and it wasn’t until Wednesday morning, some two hours before the set start time, that they sent out a new press release with the correct address and also announced the change on a group they recently created.
Still, I was awake at the time, since I was planning to go and buy a few things relatively early, so I noticed the announcement and said I’ll give it a shot, changing my initial decision to skip this one since that was motivated by the selected location. However, as expected, there were a total of 15 people there, which included a couple of reporters and I believe three politicians and three or four representatives of NGOs which also seemed to have only noticed the event that very morning, and the police just allowed us to display banners for some ten minutes, after discussing the matter with Remus, seeing as the protest wasn’t authorized. The sign I held wasn’t even on topic, as I was sort of standing around when somebody handed it to me and I felt that the message that was on one side of it, which was about fracking, would be understood by too few, so I turned it over, saw a much clearer message about another environmental issue and decided to hold it so that side will be visible instead. Of course, even though we ended up standing right next to each other for the first few minutes, I made a point of ignoring Remus and he ignored me, despite shaking hands with pretty much everyone else.

After the protest, if it can even be called as such, I went to a hypermarket to buy what I meant to buy and also donate some food to account for the fact that the cashier had made a mistake in my favor the week before. I didn’t originally intend to get back there then, looking for some other way to give something worth about 5 RON, since the mistake gained me 4.27, but the protest was relatively nearby and I thought I might as well do both things at once, since I knew they had a place there where people could donate food for the food bank. However, since no good deed goes unpunished, this time I noticed that they overcharged me, the price of one of the items I had bought to donate showing up as being 1.26 RON more than it was listed as, which is a difference of over 50%. But it was supposed to be a donation, so I shrugged it off and dropped those items in the box… Which at the time held only junk, as people had obviously used it as a trash can and there wasn’t as much as a single food item in it before I threw mine.
And since I kept looking for a way to fit this in at some earlier point and couldn’t, I’ll just add here that, as I was exiting the building to go to the protest, I found myself stopped by a neighbor who recognized me and then said she was the mother of one of my former classmates from school. Being forced to interact with someone like that was bad enough, but then it got even more awkward as she kept asking how I was, if I finished college and where I worked while I just held the door open and stared silently away until she finally seemed to get the message and ask if I’m upset that she’s asking those things, which was my cue to peel away. Seriously, if she was who she said she was, what the fuck was that, just deciding to stop me at the building door and question me about annoying and irrelevant shit like that when I had nothing to do with her or her daughter in 14 years?

Otherwise, I was alone between Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning, and then again between Friday evening and earlier today, so these days were somewhat less unmanageable than they’d have normally been and I see that I still have the drive to spend quite a few hours in the kitchen and make some simple things to eat when I’m alone. Largely the same things, but that doesn’t matter; what matters is that I can get myself to do this again, after a long time when I couldn’t. Probably won’t last, but I guess I’ll keep doing it whenever I’ll have the opportunity while it does.
The story’s still going nowhere, however; I haven’t played anything other than a few hours of UnReal World, during which I stupidly “managed” to kill the one character I had been somewhat successful with; and the MobyGames issue doesn’t seem like it’ll be resolved, so that ban seems to be there to stay and I therefore can’t submit more things on that site either. In addition, as of yesterday I’m noticing updates missing from my interest lists on Facebook as well, and if this means they’re now filtering those like they do the news feed, it probably leaves no way to follow everything anymore.